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Innovation and Transition in Law: Experiences and Theoretical Settings
This book features a discussion on the modernisation of law and legal change, focusing on the key concepts of innovation" and "transition". These concepts both appear to be relevant and poorly defined in contemporary legal science. A critical reflection on the heuristic value of these categories seems appropriate, particularly considering their dyadic value. While innovation is increasingly appearing in the present day as being the category in which one looks at the modernisation of law, the concept of transition also seems to be the privileged place of occurrence for such dynamics. This group of Italian and Brazilian scholars contributing to this volume intends to investigate such problems through an interdisciplinary prism. It includes points of view both internal to legal studies - such as the history of law, theory of law, constitutional law, private law and commercial law - and external, such as political philosophy and history of justice and political institutions.
The Threads of Natural Law
The notion of “natural law” has repeatedly furnished human beings with a shared grammar in times of moral and cultural crisis. Stoic natural law, for example, emerged precisely when the Ancient World lost the Greek polis, which had been the point of reference for Plato's and Aristotle's political philosophy. In key moments such as this, natural law has enabled moral and legal dialogue between peoples and traditions holding apparently clashing world-views. This volume revisits some of these key moments in intellectual and social history, partly with an eye to extracting valuable lessons for ideological conflicts in the present and perhaps near future. The contributions to this volume disc...
A Companion to Ramon Llull and Llullism
A Companion to Ramon Llull and Lullism offers a comprehensive survey of the work of the Majorcan lay theologian and philosopher Ramon Llull (1232-1316) and of its influence in late medieval, Renaissance, and early modern Europe, as well as in the Spanish colonies of the New World. Llull’s unique system of philosophy and theology, the “Great Universal Art,” was widely studied and admired from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. His evangelizing ideals and methods inspired centuries of Christian missionaries. His many writings in Catalan, his native vernacular, remain major monuments in the literary history of Catalonia. Contributors are: Roberta Albrecht, José Aragüés Aldaz, Linda Báez Rubí, Josep Batalla, Pamela Beattie, Henry Berlin, John Dagenais, Mary Franklin-Brown, Alexander Ibarz, Annemarie C. Mayer, Rafael Ramis Barceló, Josep E. Rubio, and Gregory B. Stone.
The Worlds of Junipero Serra
"In September 2015, Junâipero Serra was canonized by Pope Francis in Washington DC against the protest of many Californian Native Americans who criticized his brutal treatment of their ancestors and destruction of their culture. Like most complex historical figures, Junâipero Serra has been interpreted in countless ways, often contextualized mainly in California. This book situates Serra in the context of the three major places that he lived, learned, and proselytized: Mallorca, Mexico, and Alta California. Scholars from all three countries contribute to a rare glimpse into the life of the saint by considering his use of music and art, his representation in popular culture; his education, ideology, and Franciscan influence; the plans and building of the missions; and his relation to native peoples."--Provided by publisher.
The Poulterers’ Case (1611)
Every student of criminal law knows for a fact that the Poulterers' Case (1611) launched modern criminal conspiracy. This decision laid the first stone of the principle that an agreement to commit a crime is also a crime. However, besides what the law reports say, little is known about the facts of the case. This edition of the testimonies collected by the Star Chamber intends to fill this gap. Additionally, an introductory study will discuss how these facts shed new light on the reasons that were mustered in support of the decision. It will also argue that modern conspiracy was not a creation of the courts but rather of the nineteenth-century scholars who turned the Poulterers' Case into a ...
Isidore of Seville and the Liber Iudiciorum
Isidore of Seville and the “Liber Iudiciorum” establishes a novel framework for re-interpreting the Liber Iudiciorum (LI), the law-code issued in Toledo by the Visigothic king Recceswinth (649/653-672) in 654. The LI was a manifestation of a vibrant dialectical situation, particularly between two networks of authority, Isidore-Seville and Toledo-Agali, a defining characteristic of the discourse coloring the fabric of writing in Hispania, c. 600-660. To more fully imagine the meaning, significance and purposes of the LI, this book elicits this cooperative competition through a series of four case-studies on writing in the period. In addition to offering an alternative historiography for the LI, this book expands the corpus of “Visigothic Literature” and introduces what the author refers to as “Gothstalgie.” See inside the book.
Enseñar derecho en la república.La facultad de Madrid (1931-1939)
A partir del hallazgo de las actas de la junta de facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Central durante la II República, en el Archivo de la Secretaría de aquella Facultad, el autor hace un estudio sobre la enseñanza del Derecho en la Universidad Central en aquel periodo republicano. Comienza con un capítulo introductorio en el que describe cómo aquella Facultad de Derecho -entonces la más importante de España- vivió intensamente desde sus comienzos el conflicto político que se dio durante la República. Seguidamente entra a analizar cómo era la enseñanza del derecho en aquella Facultad, mediante el estudio de los planes de estudio que estuvieron entonces vigentes, cada una de sus...
Estudios Luso-Hispanos de Historia del Derecho III
Este volumen reúne la mayoría de las comunicaciones presentadas en el IV Encuentro Hispano-Luso de Historiadores del Derecho / IV Encontro hispano-luso de historiadores do Direito celebrado en la Universitat Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona en junio de 2022. Tras una breve presentación del coordinador editorial y la ponencia inaugural del prestigioso profesor finlandés Heikki Pihlajamäki, los veinticinco capítulos tratan aspectos jurídicos magnéticos sobre los territorios ibéricos en las edades media, moderna y, sobre todo, contemporánea, hasta finales del siglo XX. Se hace especial hincapié en conflictos jurisdiccionales, doctrina sobre seguros en época del ‘ius commune’, experiencias y figuras judiciales o la construcción y crisis del Estado liberal. Resulta fascinante comprobar cómo avanzan en paralelo los trabajos de historiadores del derecho españoles y portugueses, cada vez mejor conectados, pero con focos de interés singulares. La vitalidad de la disciplina queda bien retratada, en un escenario progresivamente global.
La falta de valor de la jurisprudencia como ciencia.
Título de una conferencia dictada por Kirchmann en 1847 en una sociedad jurídica de Berlín y publicada con éxito en 1848. La frase “tres palabras rectificadoras del legislador y bibliotecas enteras se convierten en papel mojado” incluida en ella ha consagrado al autor y es conocida como la maldición de Kirchmann. Al rechazar tanto la escuela histórica como el positivismo, se sitúa en un naturalismo social que critica, al mismo tiempo, tanto la lejanía de la ciencia jurídica respecto a los problemas reales del derecho, como su dependencia de un derecho positivo inadecuado. Por ello, en el pensamiento del autor la ciencia jurídica se encuentra en una situación comprometida.
